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The Last Witch of Scotland

January 22, 2026January 26, 2026

text by Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish In 1727, an elderly woman named Janet Horne was executed in the Scottish Highlands for the crime of witchcraft. Nearly three centuries later, her story still lingers – fragmented, uncertain, and filtered through rumor rather than record. In The Last Witch of Scotland (2023), novelist Philip Paris revisits this haunting episode […]

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Lost and Found: Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists, ed. Joanna Devereux (review)

November 21, 2023November 21, 2023

text by Dorota Osińska Within the recent scholarship concerning visual arts in nineteenth century Britain, there is a growing interest in the relationship between creativity, economy, and gender. Frequently, this research concerns the Arts and Crafts Movement (and its different manifestations in England, Scotland and Ireland), the Pre-Raphaelites or late-Victorian Aestheticism. In contrast, Nineteenth-Century Women […]

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